Outstanding is the case of Gabriel Boric. In a decade he went from being a student leader to president of Chile, from street protest to La Moneda. He competed because he was the only one in that generational group who met the minimum age, a candidacy that had also been rejected by several national figures.…
The secret, plural and free elections are ideal to achieve a fair government in which the interests of all are safeguarded as much as possible, a very difficult objective to achieve, if the elected officials themselves do not assume that we are equal before the law and they disrespect the division of public powers, as…
You may think this is the year 2022. However, according to the Phantom Time hypothesis we are presently living in the year 1724. The Phantom Time hypothesis advanced by German historian Heribert Illig in 1991 argues that Pope Sylvester II, Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII all got together and changed…
Inter-American Watch Monday, March 14th, 2022 The Americas Biden names Colombia “major non-NATO ally’, countering Putin’s influence in Latin America The designation provides Colombia with certain trade benefits and boosts opportunities for security cooperation between the two countries— including Colombia’s potential eligibility to purchase depleted uranium ammunition, according to the State Department. Los Angeles Times:…
It’s the “globalization”. The entrails of the planet’s interconnection have been seen again. This time it was the sanctions against Moscow during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the Venezuelan consequences of that atrocious military operation. Wars are fought to be won and Russia will lose the one it’s waging now against its peaceful neighbor.…
Inter-American Watch Friday March, 11th, 2022 The Americas Russian and Chinese influence is growing in Central and South America, Pentagon officials tell House lawmakers In testimony to the committee, Army Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, said Russia and China have taken advantage of the region’s insecurity and instability to expand their…
We are in the third decade of the 21st century, but – and despite living in a globalized, digital and technological world – humanity continues to suffer from the same old baseness, for example, the excessive ambition for power. The war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine is one more example of this, although within the…
Israel’s prime minister traveled to Moscow and met for three hours with Vladimir Putin. He then spoke to Zelensky and went to Berlin to brief his German counterpart. Naphtali Bennett traveled on the Jewish Shabbat, despite being perhaps the first fully observant head of government of Israel, and the reason has to do with the…
The international system that has failed to prevent Russia’s “war of aggression” against Ukraine by activating their mechanisms to condemn and sanction the aggressor has found an overwhelming majority response against the Russian regime, except those States who abstain and -once again- prove that the worldwide confrontation is “dictatorship against democracy”. In international politics, abstaining…
College students of philosophy are entranced by the philosophical dictum of “Nothing comes from nothing” (ex nihilo nihil fit) first argued by Parmenides. In its modern connotation, the dictum has profound religious implications. To Parmenides all matter was uncreated and eternal; therefore, the universe had no beginning. In contrast, the writers of the book of…
